The first six months of the year went by with a flash of Bowie, the whoosh of Daft Punk, Boards of Canada, My Bloody Valentine, and the crash of Nine Inch Nails returning... we thought we better take stock of the year so far, and give you lot (hello!) a digest of what people were reading (or at least what they were clicking on). Hopefully this will help catch some of you up with anything (and everything) you might have missed.